Table 1 Obstructive pattern with drug-induced sleep fluoroscopy.

From: Correlation between short-time and whole-night obstruction level tests for patients with obstructive sleep apnea

 

Soft palate (N = 56)

Combined (N = 38)

Tongue base (N = 7)

p-value

Sex (male:female)

51:5

33:5

6:1

0.782

Age

44.0 ± 10.5

45.1 ± 9.8

34.6 ± 9.9

0.046

BMI

27.0 ± 3.2

26.1 ± 3.4

26.6 ± 4.6

0.465

AHI

37.9 ± 21.6

40.9 ± 27.3

47.8 ± 27.2

0.550

  1. BMI body mass index, AHI apnea–hypopnea index.